396 ILLUSTRATION OF THE BOTANY OF [ Palmacee. 
The genus Areca we have seen extend as far south as 38° lat. ; and though A. Catechu 
is most abundant both in the islands and in India, A. Dicksonii, A. triandra, and 
A, gracilis, three of Dr. Roxburgh’s species, are found, the first in the Malabar mountains, 
and the two latter in Chittagong. Colonel Sykes mentions an Areca in the Dukhun, 
which he considers to be A. Catechu. Besides these Arecas, there is in the eastern 
portion of Bengal Harina caryotoides (Wallichia, Roxb. Corom. Pl. 295; Wrightia, 
Fl. Ind. iii. p. 621), which is called Chilputta or Bel-putta by the natives of Chittagong. 
Licuala is a genus of Palms found in the Moluccas and in Java, but of which one species, 
L. peltata (Roxb.), occurs in the mountains between Chittagong and Burma. 
Calamus is a genus, of which the species have little, if any thing, of the appearance of 
Palms, being usually remarkable for their weak and trailing stems, which often extend 
to a great length, and ascend the loftiest trees. They abound in the islands of the 
Indian Archipelago, as well as in the Malayan Peninsula; a few species are also found in 
_ Peninsular India, as well as in Tropical Africa. In India they chiefly abound in the 
forests of the districts of Chittagong, Lower Assam, and Sylhet, whence they extend 
along the foot of the Himalayas as far north as the Deyra Doon, where a species is 
found, which agrees well with the description by Dr. Roxburgh of his Calamus Rotang ; 
but he states that he cannot take upon himself to quote any of the figures of Rumphius 
for the Indian plant, though, when full grown and divested of the sheath of the 
leaves, it resembles the common ratan of Malacca so much, that he has scarcely a doubt 
of their being the same. Until we are better acquainted with the Eastern, the Indian 
species may therefore be called C. Rorburghii. 
In the Peninsula of India, Bentinckia is a Palm but little known ; it was found by Dr. 
Berry on the Travancore mountains, and is known there by the Tamool name of Conda- 
panna. Caryota urens is a splendid Palm, which Rumphius, 1.t. xiv. p. 64, describes 
under the name Saguaster major, as being common in the Molucca islands, and which Dr. 
Roxburgh mentions as a native of the various mountainous parts of India, meaning, no 
doubt, of the Peninsula, where it is known by the Telinga name Jeeroogoo, and is the 
Schundapana of Rheede, Hort. Mal. i. t. 11. Corypha is found in Java, Bengal, Ceylon, 
as well as in the Peninsula of India; C. umbraculifera is the Talipat, or great Fan Palm 
of Ceylon; C. Utan is a native of the Moluccas (Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. p. 178), and C. elata 
is a species indigenous in Bengal, and called there bujoor and bujur-batool. C. Taliera 
(Roxb. Corom. t. 255 and 256) is likewise a native of Bengal, as well as of the Coro- 
mandel coast, and is called in the former Tali and Tara; Dr. Roxburgh remarks, that 
except when in flower or in seed, this Palm is scarcely to be distinguished from 
Borassus flabelliformis. The latter is the Palmyra-tree of Europeans, and the Zar of 
the natives of India, which is common in the islands of the Indian Archipelago, as well 
as in the Peninsula and southern parts of India, whence it extends northwards along 
the Malabar coast, and is described as almost the only tree seen on the flatter alluvium 
near the sea in Guzerat; it may also occasionally bé seen as far north as 30°, or near 
Saharunpore. ~ 
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